[CentOS-devel] How is updated the csgfs repo in centos4?

[Roger Peña]

--- Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote:

> Johnny Hughes wrote:
> > Roger Peña wrote:
> >> --- Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 9/8/07, Roger Peña <orkcu at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >>>> hi
> >>>>
> >>>> I just came to wonderling how centos team
> update
> >>> the
> >>>> csgfs repo, what is the procedure to do that ?.
> >>>>
> >>>> I use csgfs from centos and works great, thanks
> a
> >>> lot
> >>>> for provide it :-)
> >>>>
> >>>> but how you know when uptream provide an update
> >>> for
> >>>> the packages?
> >>>> I notice the last update because I read the rss
> >>> alert
> >>>> feed but not because they use the
> redhat-announce
> >>>> list, neither centos send a messages when there
> is
> >>> an
> >>>> update to centos-announce :-(
> >>>>
> >>>> right now I am facing the problem with a
> lacking
> >>> of
> >>>> *-kernel packages in csgfs for the newest
> >>> centos4's
> >>>> kernel; I can, and will, compile the srpms from
> >>>> uptreams for the new  -55.0.6 kernel but I am
> just
> >>>> wonderling how others solve this problem...
> >>> I suppose you will get an authentic answer from
> >>> Johnny Hughes, but to
> >>> give you a quick update on this ... this is what
> he
> >>> said on the centos
> >>> IRC this morning.
> >>>
> >>>  <hughesjr>  hi ... I am doing the new
> centosplus
> >>> kernel now .. and as
> >>> soon as that is done, I will be working on csgfs
> >>> kernel modules for
> >>> the normal kernel as well as the DRBD and XFS
> kernel
> >>> modues for the
> >>> plus and normal kernel
> >> so, it looks like he just passthrough the
> "updates
> >> jobs that have to be done" queue ? ;-)
> >>
> >> I hope he will anwser my email :-) but...
> >> first I don't want to irespect jonny and the rest
> of
> >> centos team, they are doing a great amazing job,
> a lot
> >> of peoples including me , are beneficiating from
> their
> >> work.
> >> but, is there any chance that others "channels"
> that
> >> uptreams release in its public ftp (mirrors)
> system
> >> get processed like the os/update channel ?
> >> I barely remember that someone from centos team
> said
> >> sometime in the past that the update release in
> centos
> >> is almost automatic: uptream release a package
> and
> >> some scripts in centos dev pick them and compile
> them
> >> and then release them as centos updates, am I
> correct?
> >> if that is the case, could csgfs (or RHCS and
> RHGFS)
> >> could be included in such enviroment?
> >> if the procedure is just manual.... then I will
> >> accept, without questions, centos team priorities
> :-)
> >> ;-)
> >>
> > 
> > The answer is that there are plenty of manual
> steps required whether we
> > are talking about normal updates or csgfs items.
> > 
> > The csgfs updates are particularly tricky because
> of the build
> > requirements (several packages are i386 others
> i686 ... package "A" from
> > the update needs to be built and installed to
> build package "B", etc.
> > So the CSFGS updates are more manual than the
> normal updates.
> > 
> > However, there is also a checking against upstream
> binary phase for all
> > updates that is also manual (normal and csgfs).
> > 
> > After that phase, and after installing and testing
> locally, then there
> > is a release.
> > 
> > Besides that, there are only 24 hours in a day :D
> > 
> > I am currently working on CSGFS for centos-4, you
> can expect it to be
> > updated within the next 24 hours if everything
> builds and tests OK.
> > 
> 
> OK ... the CentOS-4 csgfs area should be updated to
> the latest RPMS now
> 
> Thanks,
No, thanks a lot to you and all the team :-)

cu
roger

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